Richard Foley
| Richard Foley | |
| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | Delegate |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Bound to: | Donald Trump |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
| Richard Foley | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Connecticut |
| Role: | Former chairman, 1989-1993 |
| Location: | Danbury, Conn. |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
Richard Foley was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Connecticut. All 28 delegates from Connecticut were bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention. As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Foley attended his sixth Republican National Convention in 2016. He was a strong supporter of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for President of the United States. Referring to the 2012 Republican presidential nominee's criticism of Trump, Foley told the Hartford Courant: "Mitt Romney has really damaged himself with party people. I was taught the first rule of politics was you can't beat somebody with nobody. I hate to see it when two billionaires fight."[1][2]
Foley served for five terms in the Connecticut state legislature and is a former chairman of the Republican Party of Connecticut. He was convicted on charges of bribery in 1993. This conviction was overturned several years later in 1996.[1][3] He lived in Danbury, Connecticut.
Career
From 1989 to 1993, Foley was the chairman of the Republican Party of Connecticut. Prior to this, he served for five terms in the Connecticut House of Representatives. In April 1993, Foley resigned after nearly four years as state party chairman after he was implicated in a bribery investigation related to his time as a state legislator. He was convicted on October 29, 1993, of accepting and deducting $25,000 in bribes from two bankers in exchange for taking a favorable position on interstate banking legislation.[3]
Foley reported 10 payments of $2,500 from Richard Barbieri and John Corpaci on his tax returns, claiming that they paid him to help find tenants for their new shopping center. The businessmen, who were also involved in a municipal corruption scandal at the time, claimed that they had bribed Foley to support a bill allowing out-of-state banks to own banks in Connecticut. On January 4, 1996, Foley's conviction was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.[3][4]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Connecticut to the Republican National Convention were selected by the presidential candidates and approved by the state executive committee of the Connecticut Republican Party in May 2016. Delegates from Connecticut were bound to vote at the convention for the candidate to whom they were allocated based on the results of the state primary election. Delegates were allowed to vote for a different candidate after the first round of voting or if their candidate released them.
Connecticut primary results
| Connecticut Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
57.9% | 123,484 | 28 | |
| John Kasich | 28.4% | 60,503 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 11.7% | 24,978 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.8% | 1,731 | 0 | |
| Other | 1.3% | 2,676 | 0 | |
| Totals | 213,372 | 28 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Connecticut Secretary of State | ||||
Delegate allocation
Connecticut had 28 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 15 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's five congressional districts). Connecticut's district delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the vote in a district received all of that district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide primary vote, he or she received all of the state's district delegates.[5][6]
Of the remaining 13 delegates, 10 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[5][6]
See also
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
- RNC delegate guidelines from Connecticut, 2016
- Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Hartford Courant, "Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame An Instant Classic For GOP Delegates," July 18, 2016
- ↑ The Connecticut Mirror, "Establishment well-represented among Trump’s CT delegates," May 11, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Hartford Courant, "Foley's Bribery Conviction Reversed," January 5, 1996
- ↑ The New York Times, "Former G.O.P. Chairman Found Guilty of Bribery," October 29, 1993
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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